June Diane Raphael

Writer, performer, improviser and actor-those are just a few of the words that sum up the multifaceted career of June Diane Raphael. Although she started out with New York's famed improvisational thea...
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Actress June Diane Raphael and her husband Paul Scheer are first-time parents. The couple welcomed a baby boy on 30 April (14).
Opening up about the new arrival, the Year One and Bride Wars actress and funnyman Scheer tell Us Weekly magazine, "The family is really excited to get him ready to be a contestant on next season's (reality competition programme) Dancing With the Stars."
The new parents wed in 2010.

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If you have been randomly surfing through the E! network’s schedule or searching for your favorite comedic actors, you may have stumbled upon Burning Love. This series has a bunch of A-list actors and a really irreverent spin on shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Not only is it shocking to see the likes of Adam Scott, Adam Brody, and Michael Cera in this relatively unknown show, but apparently the series started as a wildly popular web show that has featured Kristen Bell, Malin Ackerman, and Jennifer Aniston.
E! is currently airing the second season of The Bachelorette spoof. The State and Party Down alum Ken Marino directs this series and starred in the first season. The current season centers on Julie Gristlewhite (June Diane Raphael), the runner up from the prior season. Like The Bachelorette, Julie has a group of suitors vying for her affection. They include Ryan Hansen (Veronica Mars) as Blaze, the hot one, Joe Lo Truglio (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) as the single dad overly attached to his son, and Michael Cera, as the overly romantic guy. The cast also includes Adam Scott, Jerry O’Connell, Paul Scheer, Nick Kroll, and Colin Hanks.
It’s insane to see this many great actors in such a small show. There are also cameos by Ben Stiller, Rob Corddry, Rebecca Romijn, and Paul Rudd. This much comedic talent in one place allows for a lot of funny bits and insanely irreverent moments. It also doesn’t shy away from pointing out the stupidity of some of these marriage proposal shows. At times Julie is racist or easily fooled. The guys get overly competitive and all have the unique archetypes of the cast of the popular ABC reality series.
It’s great to see Lo Truglio reunite with his The State co-stars Michael Ian Black and Marino. Along the same lines, Marino starred in Party Down with Scott, Hansen, and Martin Starr.
The series is definitely worth catching for a laugh. The second season is currently airing on E! and the full three seasons are available for viewing on Yahoo. Check out the series trailer:
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Sarah Silverman's failed NBC pilot Susan 313 might have not gotten picked up by the network, but that's not going to stop the comedian from sharing her comedy with the public. With the go-ahead from 20th Century Fox, Silverman went to YouTube and posted the pilot on her personal channel JASH (although we wouldn't have been surprised if she posted the video without getting approval first).
The pilot follows a newly single woman named Susan (played by Silverman) who heads back to her old life, and more importantly, her old apartment in an attempt to move on from her 10-year relationship.
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Silverman introduces the video by saying, "This isn’t like, 'Can you believe they didn’t pick this up?!' It's like, 'They probably did the right thing, but we liked the show.'" And you know what? We like the show too. Here's why we think Susan 313 should have been given a chance:
1. The cast includes comedy gold like Tig Notaro (Inside Amy Schumer) and Harris Wittels (Parks and Recreation).2. The cast also includes actress and writer June Diane Raphael, who deserves her own section on this list. Raphael, also known as Casey Wilson's writing partner, has starred in NTSF:SD:SUV, Drunk History, Burning Love, New Girl, and most recently Parks and Recreation as Tynnyfer. 3. Jeff Goldblum guest stars as Silverman's ex in the pilot. Jeff Goldblum, guys.4. Ron Howard was producing. Ron Howard, guys.5. Within the first five minutes, it's apparent that Susan 313 is already better than NBC's Sean Saves the World. One can only guess as to why the network would pass up on a show that seems to be a match made in heaven and go with one that probably doesn't deserve the NBC time slot.6. The premise seems somewhat similar (but not too similar) to the pilot of New Girl, and that show's doing well, right?7. The comedy is still classically Sarah Silverman, but it's much more toned down than we thought it would be. And we mean that in a good way.8. A broken faucet causes Susan to have a full-on meltdown. And we like that because we all know that stuff like that happens way too often in the real world.
While the pilot didn't get picked up this time around, we can only hope that someone out there likes the comedy enough to make sure more episodes get made. Netflix, are you listening?Silverman's first HBO stand-up special, We Are Miracles, will air November 23. You can check out more of her work on Jash.com, the online comedy network that she founded along with Michael Cera, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and Reggie Watts.
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Parks and Recreation is determined to come up with a season long arc, and so far, Leslie's (Amy Poehler) idea for a merger with rival town Eagleton is proving to be a good one. This week, the department took on their Eagleton counterparts in order to learn the lay of the land. Ultimately, the episode feels a little light because no matter how much we may want to see more of the Eagleton Parks Department, there was no way the cast was going to double in size, but the conceit was funny enough that it doesn't matter whatsoever.
April (Aubrey Plaza) is back to full agent-of-chaos mode, first rebranding Jerry (whose actual name is Gary) as "Larry Gengrich," and then torturing her doppleganger, Tynnyfer (June Diane Raphael) by mimicing her vapid cluelessness and tricking her into quitting her job and breaking into Dwayne Wade's house in Miami. Ron (Nick Offerman) slowly realizes that his counterpart, played by Sam Elliott and also named Ron, might be another mustachioed man of few words with a love of the outdoors, but while Ron is a libertarian suvivalist and meat-lover, Eagleton Ron is a vegan enviornmental crusader and nut nut ("They make wonderful milks"). They go from instant friends to instant enemies, and it's nice to see the slow build of things our Ron hates coming out of an increasingly gleeful Alterna-Ron's mouth. The only downside to so many great day players was that aside from Leslie's attempts to figure out who to fire, we didn't get to see any of our usual inter-character chemisty. Tom (Aziz Ansari), in particular, was stranded alone in his struggle to conceal that his doppleganger was a super-efficient computer program called E.R.I.C by constructing a fictional drug-dealing, racist, messy jerk identity for Eric who does, indeed, get fired.
And despite all these machinations, Leslie would have never fired someone from the main cast tonight, not just because they are under contract for the rest of the season, but because after recieving the news that Chris (Rob Lowe) and Ann (Rashida Jones) are planning to move out of Pawnee, she becomes hyper loyal, panicking about the loss of a friend by hanging on desperately to her employees, even attempting to get them to sign a Loyalty Agreement that binds them to the town for 50 years. Though Ann tries to soften the bad news with a plate of waffles and a picture of a shirtless Joe Biden riding a horse, Leslie still feels betrayed.
If only things were as easy as they are for Chris and Ben (Adam Scott), who have become close again over the last few episodes but dealt with the news in a mature and kind way. But Leslie's panic is understandable and totally in character. Additionally, Ann is pretty much nowhere to be found in what should have been a much bigger episode for her. Even as Leslie constantly reminds us how they are best friends who love working together, she spends far more time seeking advice from Ron and working with the rest of the department. If there was ever a time to show their friendship and its tightness, it was here. And with Pawnee becoming extreme in its unhealthiness (Chris orders a "salad" filled with gummy worms, cheese, a gumball, and toffee) and this merger giving her a natural break in her job, it's hard to tell exactly how she feels about leaving or about starting a new life with Chris. While it does seem best for the show to lose Ann as Ben becomes a more logical anchor in Leslie's life, that doesn't mean Ann should be unceremoniously shipped off. And the abrupt ending of the episode, which cuts to black just as Ann and Leslie sit down to talk, felt confusing, as the audience doesn't really know the answers to what they're talking about. Hopefully, next week we'll get a chance to hang out with both characters as they think about how to say goodbye.
Questions, Comments, Concerns:This week's stray observations will be used as a shrine to Craig, Donna's doppleganger, who was played by Billy Eichner, was the only Eagleton member left on the "maybe" side of returning vs. being fired, and was by far the most quotable. Case in point:"Donna? That is the perfect name for you. I love it, don't ever change it.""I wanted to be a Spanish man named Terrance, but that didn't happen." "I carried the Eagleton Department on my back and I loved every second of it, you don't even know!" (You have to imagine that this is at a shrill, manic pitch capable of waking the dead.)"You want me to put Bermuda grass in a continental climate that's a six on the Beauford scale in a park with zero drainage? I want Kentucky Bluegrass, I want a 10 percent discount, and I want you to apologize to my best friend Donna!" "I have a medical condition all right. It's called caring too much... and it's incurable! Also I have excema." "I'm halfway through designing a bamboo gazebo as a tribute to the founders of Motown.""My DVR is pregnant with 13 months' worth of Scandal."
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Author/exhausted father Adam Mansbach's wildly popular 2011 children's book for parents Go the F**k to Sleep is getting the big screen treatment. Now, if visions of disappointing movies like He's just Not That Into You or TV shows S**t My Dad Says — which both took clever, of-the-moment, albeit one-note ideas and effectively made them less so — just danced in your head, you can rest a little easier.
Hollywood.com confirms that actor/writer/all-around hilarious human being Ken Marino (of Children's Hospital, Party Down, Veronica Mars, Wet Hot American Summer, and Role Models fame) and his wife Erica Oyama are adapting the delightfully foul-mouthed illustrated book for Fox 2000.
While interpretations of the best-selling book seemed like it hit a fever pitch back in 2012 when Samuel L. Jackson, the man who can turn any bad word into an art form, did the audio narration for it. After all, no one could make lines like "I know you're not thirsty. That's bulls**t. Stop lying. Lie the f**k down, my darling, and sleep" sound better than the Pulp Fiction star could.
Still, if anyone can revive the hilarious, but somewhat controversial book from its slumber, it's Marino and Oyama. Look no further than E!'s criminally underrated, but bitingly funny reality dating show parody Burning Love, which they both write and star in. Now, here's a series that in theory should only work as, say, an SNL sketch, but instead of being just funny in concept, has pitch-perfect comedy execution.
Better yet, Marino and Oyama are in a tight-knit comedy circle in Hollywood that includes the likes of Paul Rudd, Adam Scott, David Wain, Megan Mullally, Malin Akerman, June Diane Raphael, and Michael Ian Black, just to name a few. So while no casting announcements for the Go the F**k to Sleep movie have been announced, it's a pretty safe bet that a few familiar faces could pop up to tell unruly kids to, well, you know.
Another safe assumption is that Marino and Oyama probably won't take the Spike Jonze approach of what he did with another short, but beloved book with his adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. Instead, here are some ways we could imagine the couple tackling the already-funny source material:
An all-star romantic comedy parody: Have a huge ensemble comedy like What To Expect When You're Expecting about a group of new parents and their terrible children and then skewer the hell out of an ensemble comedy like What To Expect When You're Expecting.
An all-star absurd comedy: Almost the same as above, but instead of doing a self-aware parody, just balls-out comedy nonsense on par with Wet Hot American Summer.
Keep it animated: There aren't nearly enough PG-13 or R-rated animated movies anymore. (What the hell is this generations Bebe's Kids?!) There's a reason why shows like Archer and South Park (which, admittedly, made for the best R-rated animated movie of all-time) are so f**king popular.
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More Time For Loft Parties: Looks like New Girl will be sticking around a bit longer — Fox has announced new finale dates for New Girl, The Mindy Project, Touch, and Kitchen Nightmares. The first two will say goodbye (for now) on May 14, the latter on May 10. Touch is still waiting for a renewal, but we wouldn't bet on it.
JT on The CW: The CW will air a new one-hour special, Target Presents the IHeartRadio Album Release Party with Justin Timberlake, featuring performances and interviews with the musical superstar, as well as an exclusive eight-minute world premiere of Timberlake’s new music video. The special will air on Tuesday, March 19, at 8 PM ET/PT with an encore of the airing on Friday, March 22 at 8 PM ET/PT. [The CW]
Abbie Cornish Would do Anything For Klondike: Limitless and Sucker Punch star Abbie Cornish has officially joined Discovery's first scripted mini-series, Klondike. Unfortunately for stoners, it's not about the delicious ice cream treat. Instead, Klondike will follow "the lives of two childhood best friends, Bill and Epstein, in the late 1890s as they undertake the next, gold rush capital in the untamed Yukon Territory. This man-versus-nature tale places our heroes in a land full of undiscovered wealth, but ravaged by harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters including greedy businessmen, seductive courtesans and native tribes witnessing the destruction of their people and land by opportunistic entrepreneurs." Cornish will play the female lead, Belinda.
Mandy Moore Replaced by 30 Rock Staple: In today's... interesting... casting news, 30 Rock alum Kristen Schaal has replaced Mandy Moore as Louise in ABC’s pilot adaptation of the BBC comedy Pulling. She'll join Jenny Slate and June Diane Raphael as dysfunctional women dating in their 30's. It's not strange at all that Schaal, a respected and well-known comedienne, is joining these other two respected and well-known comediennes — it's strange that Mandy Moore was going to be there in the first place. Guess she'll have to find another walk to remember... [Deadline]
New Girl's Old Fling: Teen Wolf star Dylan O'Brien is set to guest star on an upcoming episode of New Girl. A flashback episode airing in late April will feature the stories of how each of the New Girl gang lost their virginity. In that episode, O'Brien will play Jess's prom date, a gorgeous, romantic, guitar-playing 18-year-old who promises a memorable "first time" for Jess, who wants to lose her virginity to someone special. [TV Guide]
Spader Lands Thrilling Role: James Spader just landed a role in the NBC thriller pilot The Blacklist. He will play Raymond “Red” Reddington, a former Army intelligence officer-turned-wanted criminal who turns himself in with the intention of giving up all his fellow accomplices. The catch? He wants to work with rookie FBI agent Liz Keen (Megan Boone), a woman with whom he seemingly has no connection. Red is said to reject the “spy” label, instead preferring to be thought of as a broker who arranges deals for criminals — for a price. [EW]
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While Valentine's Day is a treasured, cherished holiday for some, a good deal of Americans lament the coming of every Feb. 14. Be they opposed to the commercialization of love, annoyed by the onslought of thematic movies and TV episodes, or simply sullen over their own romantic inadequacies, V-Day is bound to conjure up a few anxieties. But luckily, you could be doing worse. A whole lot worse. That's what Burning Love reminds us.
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The satirical web series from creator and Season 1 star Ken Marino has released its second season premiere, this time featuring June Diane Raphael as the center of a Bachelorette-style reality show... which deals her an unimpressive variety of gentleman callers (including Rob Huebel, Joe Lo Truglio, Martin Starr, and Raphael's real life husband Paul Scheer). Check out the full 13-minute long episode below!
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People in the media continue to argue over whether "woman are funny" (OK, mostly Adam Carolla). But sift through the past decade of comedy and it's painfully obvious that when it comes to making us laugh, ladies can bring it. Hollywood is slowly latching onto this, pipelining more and more female-led projects with cross-gender appeal. The only problem is that most of them sideline what makes the actresses spark. A woman is either handed a generic romantic comedy in hopes they will elevate the material, or a high-concept vehicle with a meaty ensemble (Bridesmaids and 2013's Identity Thief fit in here). Can't a lady just be silly, stupid, and funny like their male counterparts?
Yes. Yes, they can. And yes, they should.
Sundance's midnight premiere slate is annually curated with the weirdest and wildest in independent film, and 2013 proved itself worthy with the Monday night premiere of Ass Backwards. Written by and starring Happy Endings star Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael (NTSF:SD:SUV), Ass Backwards tracks two happily delusional, life long friends in New York City — Chloe (Wilson) is a "rising star" dancing in a glass box at a club, while Kate (Raphael) is the CEO of her own egg donor company — as they hit the road to participate in a 50th anniversary beauty pageant. In their early days, Chloe and Kate were pageant losers, tying for last place after one particularly disastrous competition. Now they aim to redeem themselves — as long as they can actually drive themselves back home.
Ass Backwards is straightforward like a female-driven comedy is rarely allowed to be in big studio movies. The two friends are morons, and Wilson and Raphael never back down from acting like idiots in the name of landing a laugh. Like Dumb and Dumber, or even more appropriate, the last female-pairing to be this fearless in his desire for stupidity, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Ass Backwards pushes buttons and presents ridiculousness that's also familiar. These are the type of girls who sing along to a skipping CD recording of "Take on Me," swoon over the voice of their British GPS system, pay back the hospitality of a lesbian commune by handing out sexual favors, and get star struck when they meet a meth junkie from their favorite rehab reality show. Unbalanced, but relatable.
What makes Romy and Michele forever watchable, and why Ass Backwards could be a breakout hit when it eventually arrives in theaters, is that both sets of space case characters love their lives and love each other. Chloe and Kate face off in a sultry dancing competition at a local strip club and are routinely found squatting on the side of the road, but they're journey bubbles over with friendship. Everyone hates them — minus Chloe's Dad (Vincent D'Onofrio), who hands over every dime from his "backwards hat" store to his daughter — except for themselves. Making it impossible for us not to love them.
Wilson and Raphael have unique comedic voices, as crass as any male counterpart with strong female identity. They go big and physical with Ass Backwards, dressing their alter egos in over the top costumes (or "high fashion," as it's known in New York) and letting loose in a way that recalls the early days of Jim Carrey. It helps that Wilson and Raphael both come from sketch comedy (SNL and a handful of Adult Swim shows, respectively). They're well-versed in hyper-specific characters — and ones we want to spend more time with, just to see what trouble they weasel their ways into. Romy and Michele only returned for a subpar direct-to-DVD sequel. Let's hope Ass Backwards finds a big enough audience that we get a few more rounds with the lovable disasters Chloe and Kate.
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S1E15: Something very interesting strikes me with this week’s episode of New Girl. In the episode, Nick is told during a medical checkup that he has a growth on his neck that needs to be examined via ultrasound, thus inspiring worst-case-scenario type of thinking among he and his friends. As soon as we hear the news delivered (from Jess’ gynecologist friend, who has agreed to look at the uninsured Nick free of charge), we know that this is an episode about Nick, not Jess. In plots like these, certain questions arise: is New Girl still New Girl when it is not about Jess? Or is it just Same Guys as Before?
What is so interesting is that even in episodes not ostensibly about Jess is the theme of New Girl prevalent. Before she came along, there existed this trio—let’s forget the strange Coach interim period and skip all the way back to Winston’s pre-Europe days. Nick, Winston and Schmidt have been a functioning group of friends for many years. But without Jess, none of the events in this week’s episode would have happened.
"Are you sure you're okay? You're walking like a Disney witch." - Jess Most obviously, Nick would not have gone to the doctor in the first place. Adamantly anti-doctor, Nick only agrees to visit a medical professional due to the unbelievable pain brought on by a bruise to his spine—courtesy of Jess during a tackle football game. The doctor Jess brings Nick to is her recurring OB/GYN friend Sadie (June Diane Raphael), who agrees to forego Nick’s fiscal inadequacies due to her affection for Jess—for whom just about anyone would do just about anything; although it is never addressed, at least on this episode, there is a lot more than just believably convenient plot advancement going on in Sadie’s willingness to examine Nick.
Jess’ friends, the ones that really know her (as the guys are coming to), are consistently willing to provide anything Jess might need from them. Not simply because they are good people too—Cece especially has a bit of a selfish streak when it comes to non-Jesses. It’s because she has and will continue to go way above and far beyond for them any day of the week. She is so incredibly invested in her friends, and the very ideas of friendship, love and compassion, that she gives 110% to every individual circumstance that comes her way. And having a person like that in your life gets to you, and rubs off on you—this is why Sadie is willing to shirk legal and financial obligations and give Nick some pills on the sly, and it is why Jess’ presence in “Injured” is far more significant than it might seem. Sadie notices a growth on Nick’s neck and mandates an ultrasound appointment for the next day. Nick is unconcerned at first, taking his painkillers as an enabler for his denial, but Jess is on edge. She can’t help but tell Winston, Schmidt and Cece about Nick’s possible condition. When they start feeding their curiosities with a self-diagnosis website—one that jumps right to cancer—the gang becomes overwhelmed by grief and anxiety over the thought of losing Nick.
"This car has been with me through everything." - Winston
"This is not even officially a car anymore." - Mechanic The remainder of the episode plays out with some interesting structural choices. A lengthy scene is devoted to the group drunkenly messing around on the piano, rattling off sloppy freestyle raps about their love for Nick. Although it probably goes against every rule of framing a story to devote so much time to such a loose, wandering scene, it is definitely my favorite of the episode. Not because it’s filled with laughs—there are a couple, but not a ton—but because it is so entirely carnal. It seems like the sort of setting you might actually find yourself in the night before a fateful medical appointment. It’s pure emotion—a little sad, a little funny, completely muddled, and kind of aimless. But if it wasn’t for Jess, this is where Nick, Winston and Schmidt would stay all night—which, I think, is the perfect representation of what New Girl is about on the whole. If Jess hadn’t stepped in, these three guys would be ensconced in what was immediately availed to them, making no effort to change or explore anything new or better themselves or one another. They all love each other, but none of them loves himself enough to make things better for any of them.
"I'm not going to go tomorrow because I don't want to get an ultrasound. I just don't have time. I've got some writing I've got to do. The truth is with working out...I've got some people to see. So I just can't make it. I lost a stamp. It sounds worse than it is, but it's a somewhat expensive stamp. And I planned on looking for it. One of the reasons I moved to Los Angeles was to get closer to whales...so I can record them. I haven't gotten around to it, because where we live is actually East. It's way farther from the ocean than I expected. I appreciate your concern." - Nick But Jess is the personification of love. She loved these guys the minute she moved in with them. So, she is willing and able to bring Nick beyond sulking over a piano in his own bar. She challenges him to do something that he never would ordinarily. Nick painfully admits that it is against his nature to “live in the moment,” to do anything without thinking it through or knowing exactly what will happen at the turnout. But inspired by Jess, Nick takes this rare opportunity to do something he might never do—and the group heads to the ocean well after midnight so that Nick can jump in. “Spontaneously.” And he does. Seconds later, though, he recoils, rushes out of the water, and declares the whole thing stupid, breaking down earnestly about the fact that he is afraid that he might have cancer. A lot of shows and movies would (and have, in the past) take an opportunity like this to play up the value of “living in the moment” as a life-saving philosophy, selling the whole idea as the only appropriate way to value one’s life. Well, not everyone is like that. Nick is set in his ways—not because he’s too afraid to be otherwise, because that’s just plain who he is. And changing him, even temporarily, would be disrespectful (you hear that, other shows to which I was alluding?).
This is an aspect of this week’s New Girl that I cherish above all: it’s honest. Not everyone is going to live in the moment. Not everyone is meant to, and not everyone has to. Not everyone can or should jump into the ocean on a whim. What’s more important is that after you crawl out, you have people there to dry you off.
"The ice in my glass represents the tears from my eyes." - Schmidt Jess pushes Nick into the ocean—something Winston and Schmidt would never have done—but she’s also there with his dry shirt once he’s back on the beach. Jess is unlike anyone else in these peoples’ lives: she’s anything they need her to be. She’s happy, cheerful and inspiring when she believes that is what Nick needs. She’s stern, severe and candid when he tells her that is what he needs. Jess is willing to be and do anything for these people. And the mere fact that they’re all beginning to conform to her ways proves that she is bringing out something within them that proves that they, too, are willing to be anything for one another as well. And as it turns out, Nick doesn’t have cancer. Nobody (outside of the show) really expected him to. But even with that as certainty, the fact that the show manages genuine emotion over the issue throughout is quite impressive. The subplots involve a growing sincerity between Schmidt and Cece, and Winston's unwillingness to get rid of his broken down truck. They are equally moving.
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The Piranha 3-D star, who wed actress June Diane Raphael last October (10), commissioned a professional to take on the lead groomsman role and even penned the faux-Nicholson's speech so he'd amuse guests.
Scheer explains, "I couldn't figure out who to be my best man (sic)... You don't want to offend one of my friends and I don't have a brother, so, I was like, 'Who could it be?' And I was like, 'I should get a Jack Nicholson impersonator to be my best man.'
"He was amazing. And I wrote him this whole speech so he could come out and be like, 'Paul and June are As Good As It Gets. Being at this wedding, I can cross it off my Bucket List.'"
But Scheer admits, the plan ultimately backfired.
He added, "He couldn't remember any of the stuff. He'd be like, 'Can you put it on a teleprompter for me?' And I was like, 'I can't put it on a teleprompter, it's a wedding.' And he was like, 'Alright I'll try.'
"I think he had a couple beers because he started forgetting his Jack Nicholson lines, and he just started saying things like, 'Yummy, yummy'... But then he goes, 'Well guess what, I'll just stand over here and give everybody hugs.'"

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Co-wrote and appeared in "Bride Wars"

Cast as Piper Ferguson on "NTSF:SD:SUV"

Co-wrote and starred in "Ass Backwards"

Featured on "Burning Love"

Recurring role as Dr. Sadie on "New Girl"

Summary

Writer, performer, improviser and actor-those are just a few of the words that sum up the multifaceted career of June Diane Raphael. Although she started out with New York's famed improvisational theater company, the Upright Citizens Brigade, Raphael soon branched out into the world of TV and movies. She has since landed recurring roles on "New Girl" (Fox, 2011- ), "Burning Love" (E!, 2013- ) and "NTSF:SD:SUV" (Adult Swim, 2011- ), and has co-written the feature-length comedies "Bride Wars" (2009) and "Ass Backwards" (2013). Raphael may not be a household name, but she's certainly gone on to become one of the most multitalented female comedians of her generation.